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by: Fred Bloggs - Fri, 9 Dec 2022 02:35 UTC

On Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 8:34:28 PM UTC-5, Skybuck Flying wrote:
> I would prefer to use the latest and greatest solution to not waste energy/effort.
>
> The best I have found so far seems to be:
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> https://proj.org/geodesic.html
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> which came from:
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> https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/doc/library.html#languages
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> and
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> https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib-c
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> which leads to apperently the latest and greatest solution:
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> https://proj.org/zreferences.html#id25
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> Which referes to the latest and greatest algorithms:
>
> [Karney2013]
> Karney, C. F. F. Algorithms for geodesics. Journal of Geodesy, 87(1):43–55, 2013. doi:10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z.

Anyone who has to expend that much verbiage to get his point across, doesn't know what he's doing.

>
> Reading it now, lot's of math to investigate ! =D
>
> Nanometer accuracy ! LOL.
>
> Bye,
> Skybuck =D

The bogosity meter just pegged.

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Re: UFO Alert Tool needs special math for Earth accuracy.	Fred Bloggs